I went for a little trip yesterday. 30 miles outside the city, half of the way by amazing road going through hills and moorland, unfortunatelly it was too narrow to stop and take photos. Weather was very good (too good in fact, not a single beutifull fluffy cloud and they make better landscapes IMO)

I walked around this massive manmade lake, it took me about 3 hours. I took 70 photos but only 22 came ok (I shoot a lot of doubles to make sure of correct focus).

all taken with DL2 and K28 f3.5. tripod, polarizer and ND grad also were used.

converted from RAW in Lightroom using mostly default settings (I have to figure out this program) no other PP.

While my monitor isn't calibrated, it is pretty close to what I get when I print. On my screen they look a bit dark and kind of flat (saturation wise). Perhaps some other readers will comment so we can determine if my monitor is off...

Some nice landscapes there Greg, I like the third and fifth the best. Did you get any from a position closer to the fence in #3? I'll bet it would make a nice foreground element. They do not look too dark to me, about right actually. However, I have noticed that if I look at PSP's suggestions for "smart photo fix" it always makes the shot way lighter than I would want it. My prints and monitor seem to agree though so I guess I just prefer a darker pic than the experts at Corel.

roy: do you have an LCD monitor? if so how do you set up brightness and contrast before calibrating with spyder? there's nothing about that in my huey manual. but I tried calibrating with different brightness and contrast settings and it always comes out the same, so I don't think it sould make much difference. any thougts on that?

I also noticed that when I print photos they come out a bit darker than no my screen, but I thought it's because I'm rubbish at this color managment and using profiles for photoshop and printing. any ideas anyone?